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blank429384jftoday at 10:29 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm probably mistaken, but I've always referred to password resets as backdoors. Is there another term they could be classfied as?


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close04today at 10:41 AM

> Is there another term they could be classfied as?

As an advertised feature of the product.

Your personal definition doesn’t match the general understanding of the word and concept. By your definition every window on a house or car is a “backdoor”. Anything with an advertised fallback is a backdoor. And sometimes the “front door” is the back door: getting money from an ATM is less secure than with an ID at the bank teller.

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